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Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

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While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will go on display in an ...

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A 19th-century farmhouse in the sleepy eastern Algarve has been reinvented as a hotel haven for slow travel that’s full of ...

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